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News Release February 16, 2015 Publicist: Joan P. Maxson, 413.658.4204, joanmaxson06@gmail.com, 207 Lakeside Dr, Tolland, MA Hebron, CT, Artist, Tiffany Novak's Painting Accepted into The Slater Memorial Museum 71st Annual Connecticut Artists Exhibition Hebron, CT: Dad's Passion, a new work by Tiffany Novak, was accepted into the highly selective and prestigious Slater Memorial Museum 71st Annual Connecticut Artists Exhibition. The 24" by 30" painting, inspired by her family summers on Cape Cod, was created on a linen canvas using a multi-layering of acrylics and papers of various fibers and textures. The juried exhibition features the original work of resident...

Simsbury, CT: The Beginning, an oil painting, 30 inches by 48 inches, of a waterfall in the woods, is among the 25% of submissions accepted into the Slater Memorial Museum 71st Annual Connecticut Artists Exhibition. The juried exhibition features the...

Maria Praeli, from New Milford, is one of several United We Dream leaders who have been invited to the White House Wednesday to meet President Obama and discuss immigrant youth, their families, and the ongoing political debate about immigrants...

Daisy Cocco De Filippis, a native of the Dominican Republic, says she'll be thrilled to witness the president's State of the Union speech next week when he is expected to talk about his hope to make community colleges free for most students.
"You...

Elsa Núñez has dedicated her life to education.Núñez, who has been president of Eastern Connecticut State University for seven years, has led a strategic planning project that has expanded the university buildings and created...

The most disturbing evidence of Connecticut's long and profitable complicity in slavery lies hidden in plain sight in the town of Salem, in the fields and woods around an ice cream bar near Routes 11 and 82. There, archaeologists from Central Connecticut...

St. Patrick's Day is Tuesday.
This may come as a shock to those of you who chose to jump the holiday by a few days to partake of the many celebrations, drink specials and subsequent hangovers that have been amply available. That's how it is here. More...

As a schoolgirl in the 1930s, Eugenie Clark spent countless hours pressed up to the tanks at a New York City aquarium, absorbed by the alligators, sea turtles and hundreds of species of fish just beyond the glass.
There was one creature, however, that...

An investigation into whether retired Army Gen. David H. Petraeus illegally shared classified information will be conducted fairly, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder said Sunday in the wake of reports that federal prosecutors have recommended that Petraeus be...

Florida has leapfrogged New York to rank as the third most populous U.S. state, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday, reflecting demographic trends that are reshaping American politics and culture, along with state bragging rights.
With 19.9 million...

The New York grand jury that decided not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man heard testimony from 50 witnesses and considered 60 exhibits including four videos, a state judge said on Thursday.The details were...

A little more than six months after Chinese TV maker TCL paid $5 million for the naming rights to Grauman's Chinese Theatre, another Chinese company is spending $20 million to boost its own brand recognition in Hollywood.
The Dalian Wanda Group, which...

It's no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That's done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word coined by admirers who realized that no existing musical...

Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New...